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Retruning for 2014: CRFR are offering  3 Continuous Professional Development courses on research and consultation with children and young people.  2 subsidised places per course are being offered (£250 reduced from £350) for those who work in voluntary organisations (only one place per organisation).

Organized by CROP, in collaboration with Equity for Children/ Equidad para la Infancia, FLACSO (Mexico), IIJ-UNAM. Deadline for submission of abstracts: October 7th, 2013.

20th International Aids Conference Melbourne 2014

The Master of Advanced Studies in Children's Rights (MCR) is an interdisciplinary and international postgraduate programme in children's rights which attracts a diverse range of graduate students from all over the world. The Master of Advanced Studies in Children’s Rights is a part-time two-year postgraduate programme that combines residential teaching and distance learning.(Application deadline for 2014 to be announced)

13th European Scientific Association for Residential and Foster Care for Children and Adolescents Conference (EUSARF) 2014 opens calls for abstracts.

Time and place: May 20, 2014 - May 23, 2014, Istanbul, Turkey

Genital Autonomy 2014 "Whole Bodies, Whole Selves: Activating Social Change".

The University of Chicago, School of Social Service Administration (SSA) invites applications for faculty positions at the Assistant, Associate or Full Professor ranks. Preference will be given to applications that are received by December 15, 2013. Review will continue until positions are filled or when the search for this academic year closes, February 1, 2014

MASTER OF PHILOSOPHY IN CHILDHOOD STUDIES, NORWEGIAN CENTRE FOR CHILD RESEARCH, NTNU - APPLICATION DEADLINES. The programme is open to both international and Norwegian students. The approach is multi-disciplinary, with particular emphasis on perspectives drawn from disciplines such as anthropology, sociology, geography, and history.

20th International Aids Conference Melbourne 2014

Invitan: El programa Infancia de la Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana y Childwatch International Research Network. ACCESO VIRTUAL, ABIERTO Y GRATUITO. Accessible free online. Dra. Irene Rizzini desde Río de Janeiro - La Primera Infancia en el Brasil.

Childwatch Key Institution, El Programa Infancia, invites you to the free colloquium: Childhoods of Southern Mexico at La Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana. Research results will be presented along with publications on the main theme. El Programa Infancia invita al próximo coloquio gratuito "Infancias del Sur de México" donde se presentarán los resultados de investigaciones y varios libros sobre el tema.

The Child Adoption Network – East Africa is pleased to announce the First Child Adoption Conference in East Africa that will bring together scholars, Government ministries, policy makers, childcare and child protection personnel, the legal fraternity, adoption service personnel, parents, adoptees and other adoption stakeholders. The theme of the conference will be “East African families for East Africa’s children.”

This conference - the seventh after Amsterdam (1998), Washington (2001), London (2004), Vienna (2007), Bangalore (2010) and Poland (2011) offers a world-wide platform dealing with health problems of children caused by important environmental influences. Abstract deadline: 1st of August.

This conference aims to discuss the problems and achievements of foreign and domestic science and practice in prevention, intervention, rehabilitation, and support for children at risk. 

The main aim of the conference is to promote wide recognition of children’s agency, empowerment and influence on their own lives, their families and communities and the society as a whole. Children are fully fledged citizens with a voice of their own, not mere recipients or passive dependents of decisions made by others on their behalf.

Re-claiming the Indigenous Child, Family and Community; Pedagogies of Place - This 21st conference is the first to be held on the African continent. The Host Committee has planed experiences that will acquaint you with local and national programs for children and an introduction to the cultures of Kenya.

HREA offers self-directed e-courses, tutored e-learning courses and training workshops for human rights defenders and educators, development and humanitarian workers, staff members of social justice organisations, international and inter-governmental organisations, law enforcement officials and legal and media professionals.

4th European Conference for Social Work and Research: Private troubles or public issues? Challenges for social work research.

Call for Abstracts and Invitation to Register: Optentia Research Programme at the Vanderbijlpark Campus of North-West University is pleased to announce that it will be hosting the 2nd South African Symposium on Positive Social Sciences 2013: Towards Thriving Youth on 28-29 October 2013 in Vanderbijlpark, South Africa. Workshops will be presented on 30 October 2013.

The Aga Khan University – Institute for Educational Development, East Africa will host its Annual Research Institute. This year’s theme, Towards Contextually Relevant Early Years Care and Education, will focus on culturally responsive early childhood care and education in East Africa.

The Global Online Counter Child Trafficking Conference which concluded on 18th October brought together the global Counter Child Trafficking community to connect, share and learn from what works on the frontline in a free and accessible format through the use of technology. Videos from the conference are now available online.

The Sexual Violence Research Initiative announces the 3rd international conference on sexual violence research, SVRI Forum 2013. The aim of SVRI Forum 2013 is to promote promising practices for preventing and responding to sexual and intimate partner violence . The Forum 2013 will be co-hosted by Partners for Prevention.

Call for Papers for contributions to special edition of Child Care in Practice: Valuing Disabled Children and Young People